Words matter. These are the best Tony Blair Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you’re weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today’s world, it can now spread like contagion.
Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.
However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
I learnt a lot in government, and I’ve learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
You know, one of the things I’ve learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it’s tough.
By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don’t believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.
There is no way you’re going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would’ve killed 300,000.
And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.
Yes, I feel I’ve got something to say. If people want to listen, that’s great, and if they don’t, that’s their choice.
You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that’s healthy and indeed even creative. But it’s where – it’s really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I’m more likely to listen to rock music.
But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It’s your choice.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it’s always about the next challenge.
People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.
Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
But as I always say to people I’m essentially a public service person.
You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction – chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability – that threat is real.
Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
Look, I am very competitive.
I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don’t think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.
